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Paleopathology Case 84 This image shows an H&E section from an eight-year-old girl. She was excavated from a Huari Gallery Burial in rural Nazca, Peru. She died about 1,200 years ago and was accompanied in death by 11 adults buried in a replica of a mountain house. Among the dead in the house were thrown a beheaded man, woman and two children to serve the ceremonial dead. These were probably taken as prisoners since they were not ceremonial burials. The mummies were wrapped with many pounds of cotton and an outer cloth. The bundles had a false head, and some had masks. The young girl's liver was one of 40 used in a viral hepatitis study in pre-Columbian mummies. The H&E section shows numerous tunnels in the liver. The material in the image was found in several tunnels. Diagnosis ? | Return to Table of Contents
Updated March 20, 2006
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